​Free Community Courses

Code First: Girls runs free part-time coding courses for young women/university students across the UK and Ireland.

​Over the past 3 years we have taught 5000+ women how to code for free and delivered £2.5 million+ worth of free coding education.

Many community courses are hosted at university locations (for which you need to be a student at that Uni to register), and we also run 'General' community courses at corporate locations (open to students and non-students alike).

To be eligible to apply for any free community course you must identify as a woman/non-binary and be...

* Aged between 18-23 OR* Aged 18+ and currently studying OR* Aged 18+ and completed studies (of any kind) in the past 2 years.

​If you are a woman outside these criteria, do join for our Code First: Professionals courses. More info here.​We also run courses (short and long) for men and women at companies. More information on that here.

Full length community courses

These courses last 8 weeks and take place for 2 hours one evening each week. Students who complete the course including the course competition assignment, will receive a Code First: Girls certificate.

We teach the basics of web development in two steps:

Our Level 1 beginners course introduces...

HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Git, GitHub collaboration, and more (front-end programming).​These languages teach you how to make a website, how to improve its design and how to push it online

Our Level 2 follow-on course teaches ...

​Either Python or Ruby, including Sinatra, Heroku and other frameworks (back-end programming). These languages teach you how to make web based applications. (They can also be used to make forms and databases).

﻿“The course was fantastic overall and I am so grateful to have the opportunity to learn these skills for free in such a positive and encouraging environment.​It has completely opened my mind about career options I wouldn't have considered before and given me a lot of confidence about my potential to work in the tech world.”

﻿The above artwork was kindly created by CF: G London General SS 2016 Beginners course alumni Alice Wilson. Alice is a British artist working on illustrations and print design, you can find out more about her work here.